How to cancel a task

This guide shows you how to cancel an in-flight scan or audit task that is queued or running on a Site.

Use this when a task is stuck against an unreachable target, when you triggered something by mistake, or when you need to free queue capacity quickly so that other work can drain.

Prerequisites

You are signed in as a Site Administrator.
You can identify the specific row to cancel from the Active tasks grid.

Steps

Navigate to Admin Center > Site Settings > Tasks and services > Active tasks.
Locate the row you want to cancel — sort by Start date descending and look for the offending task.
Select the row using its checkbox. The Cancel button in the toolbar becomes active.
Click Cancel.

Verify

The row leaves the Active tasks grid.
The corresponding entry in the Scan log or Audit log shows a terminal status. The exact label may vary by deployment — Cancelled is the expected value.

Note: The exact UX of the cancel confirmation, and the precise log status label that results, may vary by deployment.

What cancel does and does not do

Cancel stops further work on the task. It does not roll back changes already made to inventory by partial work; whatever audit data was collected before cancel persists.
Cancel does not delete the schedule that produced the task (when Initiator = Schedule). The next scheduled execution still runs at the configured time.
Cancel does not back-fill or replace the task. If you need the work done, re-trigger it manually after fixing whatever caused the cancel.

Bulk cancel

To cancel multiple tasks at once, select multiple rows before clicking Cancel. Each selected task is cancelled independently.